📊 Socioeconomic profile
💶 CasasValue · median home€72,000
Price per m² (median)€580/m²
Half of the homes between €54,000 and €90,000
CasasValue (CASAS.ES) of 471 buildings · not an official valuation
💼 27% unemployment (census)
🔑 Tenure
79% owned7% rented
🏖 2nd home / seasonal55% · highly seasonal
Tenure and non-primary homes · 2021 Census (INE)
Average net household income€20,230
Average net income · Household Income Distribution Atlas (INE), by census tract
🧬 Distinguishing features
Compared with the other municipalities nearby and in Spain. Its key data is elsewhere on this page.
Average household income in El Borge is around €20,230 net a year. In its comarca, only Salares and Benamargosa have lower household incomes. By household income, it is 3rd from the bottom of the 103 municipalities in its province. The 2021 census gave it an unemployment rate of 27%.
One in 23 residents has a foreign nationality (4.3%). None of the municipalities in its comarca has so few foreign nationals in proportion. The next one is Totalán. Heading the list of nationalities are the United Kingdom (25), Russia (2), Italy (1), Morocco (1) and Argentina (1). Residents of British nationality, 25 of them, make up 61% of the foreign nationals. El Borge is home to 0.1% of the foreign nationals of its comarca.
There are energy certificates for 14 buildings, 2.7%. The most common rating is G. Not a single one has an A or B rating. Of the certificates, 57% carry an F or G. Its median building dates from 1953. Its housing stock is newer than that of Almáchar (1950) and older than that of Arenas (1955). The decades that left the most buildings are the 1940s (129) and the 1950s (60). The town council is led by Raúl Vallejo Díaz (PSOE-A).
Sources: Municipal register (INE) · Cadastre · CasasValue (CASAS.ES) · Household Income Atlas and 2021 Census (INE) · PVGIS (sunshine) · Register of local officials · Ministry of the Interior (crime). Data as of 2026-10-17.